Structure and Dynamics eJournal of the Anthropological and Related Sciences

"Structure and Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences" is an open access, free, peer reviewed journal published by the eScholarship Repository at the University of California and is jointly supported by the [http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/ Social Dynamics and Complexity] Group within the [http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/ Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences] and by the Langson Library at the University of California, Irvine. Its content is indexed at [http://www.doaj.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=15543374&volume=1&issue=1&date=2005 DOAJ] , the Directory of Open Access Journals.

Structure and dynamics is the name of a subfield in the social sciences, used particularly in social anthropology and sociology, which connotes that while structure is an important concept in social theory, contemporary social theory has long since moved beyond structural functionalism, which was identified with Radcliffe-Brown and Parsons. It is also an important subfield in the complexity sciences.

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See also

*List of social science journals#Anthropology